English words for 'plural of existential risk'
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- a state of danger involving risk
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
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- of greater seriousness or danger
- greater in scope or effect
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the elder of two boys with the same family name
- greater in number or size or amount
- of full legal age
- of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
- of greater importance or stature or rank
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
- (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
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- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
- the principal field of study of a student at a university
- a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
- Ellipsis of major premise.
- Ellipsis of major key.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- (Australian rules football) A goal.
- Ellipsis of major scale.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- Ellipsis of major term.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit.
- Ellipsis of major interval.
- (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- A person of legal age.
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- (often in the plural) A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
- (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.
- (UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
- (law, politics) A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
- The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
- (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
- something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
- the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
- a statement that limits or restricts some claim
- an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
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- of or as conceived by existentialism
- derived from experience or the experience of existence
- relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
- Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
- Of or relating to existence.
- (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.
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- involving risk or danger
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
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- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
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- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- an obstacle on a golf course
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
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noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
- the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
- (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
- (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
- (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
- (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
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- a state of danger involving risk
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
verb
noun
- (often in the plural) A limiting qualification regarding certainty or risk; a doubt or concern.
- (US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people, such as the Hopi Reservation or the Navajo Nation's territory.
- (UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway.
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
- (law, politics) A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
- The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
- (India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
- something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)
- the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance
- a statement that limits or restricts some claim
- an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group)
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- an obstacle on a golf course
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
- the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
- (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
- (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
- (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
- (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
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- of greater seriousness or danger
- greater in scope or effect
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the elder of two boys with the same family name
- greater in number or size or amount
- of full legal age
- of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
- of greater importance or stature or rank
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
- (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
noun
- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
- the principal field of study of a student at a university
- a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
- Ellipsis of major premise.
- Ellipsis of major key.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- (Australian rules football) A goal.
- Ellipsis of major scale.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- Ellipsis of major term.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit.
- Ellipsis of major interval.
- (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- A person of legal age.
verb
adj
- of or as conceived by existentialism
- derived from experience or the experience of existence
- relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
- Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
- Of or relating to existence.
- (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.
noun
adj
- involving risk or danger
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without a basis in reason or fact
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.